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NewsRevealed: NHS trusts to lose millions in training funding
Treasury spending review leads to 2 per cent cut in education and training cash paid to NHS providers in 2016-17 Health Education England will offset the cut this year as a one-off move to prevent destabilisation NHS Providers warns cuts are not sustainable in light of wider financial pressures ...
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NewsRevealed: £6m spent on redundancies at closed CSUs
The bill for redundancies following the shutting of two commissioning support units reached more than £6m, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAgency cap expected to save NHS up to £800m in first year
NHS Improvement says agency cap is delivering substantial savings Regulator says no evidence of systematic impact on safety or staff supply Nine out of 10 NHS trusts are breaching the cap every week to maintain safety The cap on agency rates for temporary staff in the NHS is ...
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NewsJunior doctors seek 'rolling industrial action'
Hospitals could be hit by a “rolling programme of industrial action” by junior doctors from as early as next month, according to an email sent to British Medical Association members tonight.
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NewsChief executives warned over breaches to junior doctors contract
Handful of trusts have breached terms of new junior doctors contract related to guardians for safe working hours NHS Improvement warns trusts not to undermine the confidence of doctors following dispute with government A third of guardian posts have not been filled because of failures to agree on appointments ...
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NewsUpdated: Junior doctors granted new whistleblowing protection
Health Education England agrees to voluntarily close loophole in whistleblowing protection Court ruled earlier this year that HEE was outside employment law The loophole sparked concern among junior doctors during contract dispute Health Education England has said it will extend whistleblowing protection to junior doctors in the NHS ...
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LeaderTackling the NHS deficit through targeting trusts' clinical pay bills is a busted flush
Since it became clear the provider sector deficit would represent a significant danger to the NHS’s ability to stop or even slow declining performance, as well as to deliver service change, a murmur began in senior circles that fixing the problem would mean addressing the previously taboo subject of the ...
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NewsNursing shortage could continue beyond 2020
Forecast demand by trusts for adult nurses is not aligned to the Five Year Forward View Unless demand forecasts reduce the nursing shortage will continue beyond 2020 HEE’s pledge to meet future demand for nurses depends on activity falling in line with forward view Trusts had forecast an additional ...
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HSJ LocalNHS England rows back on £396k deal for CCG interim director
Kernow CCG will be forced to revisit contract for interim turnaround director The group had been approved to spend £396,000 recruiting a new interim turnaround director during the current financial year NHS England has now said the appointment “will not continue at that rate”, as this would not comply ...
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NewsSmall jump in doctors applying for NHS training despite contract dispute
Year on year increase in doctors applying for specialty training and GP training Ten per cent of posts for 2016 remain unfilled Further recruitment drives for some specialties planned More than 120 additional junior doctors have applied for specialty training in the NHS and more than 170 trainees ...
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HSJ LocalWhistleblowing manager given £240k payout in wake of bullying claims
WORKFORCE: A senior manager who made accusations of bullying by the chief executive at a Yorkshire acute trust was given a £240,000 exit package two years after being placed on “special leave”, figures in the trust’s board papers reveal.
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NewsMackey: Pay bill growth list was 'intended to start a discussion'
NHS Improvement says its list of trusts with high pay bill growth was “intended to start a conversation” Jim Mackey says asking for total “excess” of £356m to be cut would be “unworkable and unsafe” Mr Mackey says providers will not “be penalised financially over pay growth” NHS ...
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HSJ LocalNHS England permits CCG to spend nearly £400k on interim director
The £396,000 includes agency fees and contractual payments to employ turnaround director “during the current financial year”. Actual length of appointment still subject to agreement Post filled by Keith Pringle, who has previously worked with Hampshire CCGs and Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust APPOINTMENT: NHS England has authorised a ...
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NewsGPs to be offered 'portfolio' contract with hospital trust
Commissioners in east Sussex are to offer GPs a contact with the local acute and community services trust.
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NewsUpdated: More trust leaders insist regulator was wrong to target pay bills
NHS Improvement’s figures identifying potential excess paybill spending did not take account of key service changes, chief executives say Trusts including Salford Royal and UCLH identified as over-spending on staff Regulator will be asked to publish revised list by Royal Devon FT More trust leaders have defended their ...
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NewsTrust chiefs hit back at claims of overspending on staff
Hospital chief executives who face having to find millions of pounds in extra savings have hit back at NHS Improvement’s claims they may have recruited too many staff.
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NewsInterim managers' pay at CCGs capped
Senior managers will need to approve all interim CCG managers paid at above £600 per day, as part of new NHS England measures to limit costs.
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NewsDH signed off £3bn in working capital loans last year
Explore the trust by trust data The Department of Health paid £3.1bn in working capital loans to trusts in 2015-16, HSJ analysis of official data shows.
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital pleads for any junior doctors to help staff A&E
Leeds Teaching Hospital appealed for junior doctors regardless of experience or specialty to work in its A&E departments Agency and locum staff declined shifts at the trust despite offers to pay above capped rate Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says country is short of 1,000 A&E consultants ...
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NewsDepartment of Health shake-up revealed
DH unveils new directorate structure as part of cost cutting drive Social care and technology move into new community care directorate Four new directorates report to permanent secretary Chris Wormald The Department of Health has reorganised its directorate structure, HSJ has learned.